General Beauregard’s is a bar in Athens, Georgia, known for its sweet tea, live country music, and brazen, nauseating dedication to Confederacy. Many people readily believed an image of a drink menu offering a “N*****ita” shooter circulating on social media late Monday night came from General Beauregard’s menu. However, the bar’s owner says the viral image is a hoax.
Who is Marc Jacobs? Sometimes he is a designer of pretty garments, which we bloggers can write about. Sometimes he posts pictures of his dick on Instagram, which we can write about. Sometimes he says he’s going to take his company public and then doesn’t—something else we can write about. Without Marc Jacobs and the bountiful content he provides, bloggers might shrivel up and die. Cobwebs would gather inside the HTML code, a cursor blinking in an empty white box for eternity, until one day it stops blinking altogether. That is the fate of the blogger, according to Marc Jacobs.
I will start off this post by stating the obvious: Tom the Jeopardy Contestant is much smarter than I am, by virtue of having been on Jeopardy, while I, on the other hand, do... this. That’s good for Tom because, even as he stood on the set of Jeopardy, he looked way, way dumber than I do.
Theranos, a $9 billion Silicon Valley startup that says it can run a full range of lab tests using mere drops of blood instead of whole vials, came under fire this month after the Wall Street Journal reported the vast majority of the company’s tests were run on traditional machines, not groundbreaking new technology. Now Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has promised to release data that will purportedly prove her company’s tech works.
October 31, 2015 is still four days away, but Americans have already started donning blackface to celebrate the occasion. This morning, an apparent student from Florida posted photos of herself dressed up as “Nicki Minaj” on Twitter.
Very rich people sometimes make very large donations to educational or cultural institutions. In return, they ask for their names to be plastered atop buildings. These donations have no moral worth.
A prince in jail! Cocaine on a private jet! A shameful confession! Two tons of amphetamines confiscated! For most of us here on earth it’s just another Tuesday. But Saudi’s royal drama, she follows no schedule and yields to no man—unless that man is arresting her for drug trafficking.
A prize show horse expected to compete in the Grand Prix this year met a gristly end this weekend when “professional” thieves stole him from his stall and carved him up in a nearby field leaving behind just a “ribcage, neck and head” for his owners to find.
In ancient lore, Aphrodite, the goddess of all things beautiful and passionate, arose from the churning foam and crashing waves of the ocean, pearl birth from a glittering sea. This week, a bunch of really old teeth are being spat out by that same sea.
There is “little evidence” behind the FBI director’s notorious “Ferguson effect” according to the FBI director himself.
The White House and congressional Republicans have reached a tentative deal to set a two-year federal budget and raise the debt ceiling, reports The Hill. The deal—which could come to a vote in the House as early as Wednesday—represents *gasp* a compromise on the distribution of funds between the Pentagon and domestic programs.
Thanks to the oil-thirsty countries of the world, the Persian Gulf is expected to become a blistering, red-hot convection oven in less than a century, much earlier than scientists thought.
